Having a weird issue with file permissions. A user we recently created, get the error message "contact administrator" when she tries to open a file saved on the network shared drive. I logged on the server to check the file permissions on it, and under Owner it says "Unable to display current owner."

It almost seems like when she touches the file, it messes up the permissions on it somehow. I checked her group membership and it is all correct. Are there logs I can search for that might give me a clue? I know I can correct the permissions on that file simply by logging in as an admin on the server and correcting the permissions but how do I prevent it from happening in the future?

Depends on how permission are assigned to the file/folder. Essentially you just want to make sure that however her access is controlled, that she does not have "Ownership" checked. That could be for her, or an AD group that she is a member of. But either way it should be file permissions or more likely the folder that the file sits in.

So this seems to be an issue with SBS 2008, but I haven't figured that out.

If I open SBS Console, I am getting some errors. Basically, if I click on any of the tabs, I get: "The Windows SBS Console feature is not set up correctly." And when I check under users and groups (after clicking okay on the error), it reports 0 users and 0 groups.